The first year

Life is great. I have heard it said that the first year of marriage is the hardest and while I will be the first to admit it has not been a piece of cake so far, there hasn't been any real bumps in the road. Granted, we have only been married a little over two months. I think our biggest problem so far has been learning how to go from "Oh, I don't care that he/she does that because it's not my home." to "Holy crap, I'm gonna die if he/she does this one more time." Personally, I think its an adjustment thing. We have to adjust to living together, not only in terms of scheduling but also in terms of chores and household responsibilities. While it has been a roller coaster, and there has been screaming and fighting (because if we didn't argue, life would be boring) but we love each other. I'm willing to fight through every half drank beer bottle left on the table, every random sock kicked off in the middle of the floor, and every not rinsed off dish I have to scrub to reach the perfect cohesion. When we know how the other functions perfectly and how to not intentional make the other person mad.

That was a killer paragraph, but has been on my mind today. Anyone else have silly things they never knew could drive them so crazy after they got married?

Procrastination can be productive

Partially I am writing this blog post to procrastinate on writing my paper, but also I have exciting things to tell about :D

This week I am working on telling Ben when I am wrong. I have such an annoying pride that even when I know I am wrong (and ya, that doesn't happen often). I can't seem to apologize. I will blame being wrong on something else. "I only reacted that way because of the  look you gave me!" "I'm sorry I said that, but had to not done ____ it wouldn't have happened." You get the picture.

Well for the first time this weekend I blew up for a pretty silly reason ( I had a right to be mad, but I wayyy overreacted) and stormed off to shower. While showering I remembered how I am suppose to be working on this pride issue of mine. When I was out of the shower, I immediately apologized and made sure I did  not    blame my outburst on something unrelated. My husband deserves an apology when I mess up and I knew that I had messed up. While this may seem silly to you, it was a huge accomplishment in my department and of course, apologizing once does not mean that I am completely over my pride issue but it does mean I am taking baby steps :)

As for newlywed life, everything is still pretty blissful. Maybe it's that we are still in the "newlywed" stage of our marriage, but really we haven't had any big adjustments (other than I keep trying to push him off the bed in my sleep. Whoops!). Our home is really coming together one piece at a time.

We are planning on a trip to Orlando in May! I AM SO EXCITED. I have never been to Orlando and can not wait to ride the roller coasters and see Hogwarts! Then, when we get back its baby making time... but I think ill save that topic for another day :)

And it begins

I feel like such a failure when it comes to blogging! I always want to, but feel I never have time. I am going to try to start making it a priority to update at least once a week.

Here's whats going on: I decided to not take the job at the tanning salon. At this time I am taking 12 hours of school and doing an internship for 20 hours a week. I don't think I could work right now and make my marriage work. I don't think it would be physically possible. Plus with Ben still working nights we would never see each other.

My office is complete! YAY! I don't have any pictures just yet, but hopefully soon. We painted it a pale yellow and it has a very vintage feel  to it. I absolutely love it and I love having a space that is all mine where   I can go to get away from the noise in the house. I needed this just so I could attempt to finish school this year :)

There is nothing else really happening here. We are settling into our schedules and trying to figure out how this semesters is going to work for both of us. Things are a little hectic and we are living by our calender in hopes of figuring out who has to be here when or what bills need to be paid by what date. I'm hoping things even out here in a few weeks.